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A 

COMPREHENSIVE VIEW 

OF THE 

REVELATION 0F.ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 



The first three chapters of this book were directed to 
the Seven Churches in Asia ; and were told to John by the 
mouth of Christ. The remainder of the Book of Revela- 
tion was shown to John by symbols, or signs ; and refers 
mostly to Europe and the United States. 

In Rev. iv: 1, the apostle saw an opening into Heaven, 
and a voice saying, Come up hither and I will show thee 
things that must be hereafter. 

Now if the things shown to the Apostle were in the 
future, they have nothing to do with the past. 

In v. 7, same chapter, the Apostle describes four very 
remarkable beasts. The first beast was like a lion ; the 
second beast like a calf ; the third beast had a face as a 
man ; and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. 

The four beasts described by the Apostle are the em- 
blems of four different nations, or governments. To 
illustrate : When we behold the flying Qagle on our coin, 
or on our national banner, we know what it means. And 
we know that the lion is the emblem of the English 
Power, &c. 

Upon the fifth chapter but little will be said at this 
time. In verses 9, 10. we read that Christ has redeemed 
us by His blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and 
people, and nation ; and has made us unto our God. kings 
and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. We must 



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keep it in mind that it is on earth that God's people will 
reign as kings and priests, not in Heaven, for Christ for- 
ever reigns as King and Priest in Heaven. 

Sixth Chapter, 

This short chapter runs over a space of time of not less 
than eighteen or nineteen hundred years. It extends to 
Christ's Second Advent, when a new era will commence, 
and all things become new. 

When the first seal was opened the Apostle had his eyes 
fixed on the book, when the voic£ said come and see. He 
could not be sure which of the four beasts it was, but un- 
doubtedly it was the first beast ; for after that the beasts 
came in order ; the lion said come and see the wonders 
that the British shall perform. And behold a white horse 
and he that sat on him had a bow ; and a crown was given 
unto him ; and he went forth conquering and to conquer. 

The white horse is an emblem of victory. So we can 
see that the lion has been very victorious in its wars. 

And when he had opened the second seal, 1 heard the 
second beast say come and see. And there went out an- 
other horse that was red ; and power was given unto him 
that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that 
they should kill one another. And there was given unto 
him a great sword. I am not prepared to say what nation 
this second beast symbolized, but I think France will suit 
the bloodshed and distress of this red horse, and his rider ; 
as that nation has destroyed her own people by revolution 
and war, and martyrdom. 

And when Iiq had opened the third seal, 1 heard the 
third beast say conic and see. And I beheld, and lo. a 
black horse, and he that sat on him had a pair of balances 
in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of i he four 
beasts Say, a measure of wheat for a penny, and three 
measures of barley for a penny : and see thou hint not the 
oil and the wine. This Mack horse symbolizes a land of 
oil and wine in abundance, but a scarcity of wheat ; the 
great staff of life. A measure of wheal for&penny, thai 



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was one day's ration ; and for one day's work a man re- 
ceived a penny. This shows a time of famine that this 
nation has to be afflicted with, while the other nations will 
be afflicted by war. 

We now come to the fourth seal. And the flying eagle 
says come and see. This refers to the United States. The 
pale horse and his rider show a horrible state of war that 
this country has to pass through. Death and Hades had 
power over a fourth . part of the earth, or America. This 
pale horse and death will not only have power over the 
foes of her own country but over all foreign foes, and the 
greatest amount of bloodshed will be the blood of her for- 
eign enemies. This is the country where we have witnessed 
the reaping of the harvest of the earth, and may expect 
the treading of the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath 
of Almighty God.— Rev. xix: 15. This last and decisive 
battle will put a stop to war, and be the downfall of all 
the kings of the earth. " Put ye in the sickle, for the har- 
vest is ripe ; come, get ye down, for the press is full ; the 
fats overflow, for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, 
multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the 
Lord is near in the valley of decision." — Joel Hi: 13 > 14. 
We find by these verses 'that the reaping of the harvest, 
and the treading of the winepress, are near together : per- 
haps forty-five years apart. 

" And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the 
altar, the souls of them that were slain for the Word of 
God, and for the testimony which they held."— Rev. ol: 9. 
The opening of the fifth seal shows a time in the history 
of nations that God is pouring out the bowls of His wrath 
on the different nations for their sins ; and as national sins 
are punished in this life, (for as nations they will not exist 
in the next world), so the martyrs think the time is very 
long until God calls their murderers to account. But God 
assures them that in a short time vengeance will come. 
Man often thinks that the wheels of Providence turn very 
slowly, but God is not slack concerning His promises as 
some men count slackness, but will avenge His own elect 



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speedily. Christ informed His faithful martyrs that per- 
secution and war was not over ; and that more of His true 
followers would be called upon to lay down their lives for 
his sake, and then the nations that have shed the blood of 
God's people will be overthrown. For every nation that 
killeth with the sword shall perish with the sword. 

" And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, 
there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black 
as sackcloth of hair ; and the moon became as blood ; and 
the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree 
casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty 
wind. And the heaven departed like a scroll when it is 
rolled together ; and every mountain, and every island 
were moved out of their places. 

"And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the 
rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men. and 
every bondsman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the 
dens and in the rocks of the mountains : and said to the 
mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face 
of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of 
the Lamb : for the great day of his wrath is come, and who 
shall be able to stand ?" 

The opening of the sixth seal is one of the most im- 
portant events that ever has taken place in this world. I 
say has taken place, for most of it has past. The contents 
of this seal are spoken of by Christ in the Gospel by St. 
Mathew, xxiv: 29-39. Tt is there told that, at the coming 
of Christ the sun would be darkened, and the moon should 
not give her Light, and the stars should fall from heaven, 
and that the powers of the heavens should be shaken. My 
understanding of the powers of the heavens is that they 
are the rulers of this heaven and its laws. 

Before attempting to give an explanation of this sixth 
seal, I will say to my readers that the Book of Revelation 
is highly figurative, and we must explain it as such. 

The heaven, the earth, the sun, the moon, and the stars. 

here spoken of. are not the sun we see by day, nor the 
moon and stars we see by night : and we should not expect 



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ever to see the stars fall on our earth, when we consider 
that some of the stars are more than one hundred times 
larger than our earth. 

This heaven that was dissolved ; and these mountains, 
and islands, that were moved, were all the works of man, 
every one of them, In Rev. xvi: 20, it reads that every 
island fled away ; and the mountains were not found. This 
goes to show that they are movable objects. They were 
the mountains that the Mystic Babylon was seated on ; and 
God took them away in His wrath. They were also the 
mountains that supported slavery in the United States. 
This sixth seal refers to our country. This seal was opened 
nearly eighteen hundred years before the things shown to 
the Apostle came to pass. The fourth seal, and the sixth 
seal ; the fourth and sixth trumpets ; and the fourth and 
sixth, and part of the seventh, bowls of God's wrath refer 
to the United States. 

We will now consider the meaning of the sixth seal. 
"And J beheld, when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, 
there was a great earthquake." This was not a literal 
earthquake, but a moral eruption in our government, when 
the South seceded from the Union. This earthquake 
caused the sun of our bright Republic to be darkened for a 
time ; and the one-third of our stars, (or states), to fall to 
the earth ; for every state is a star on our flag. It is said 
in the 12th verse of this chapter, that the moon became as 
blood. We read in Joel ii: 31, "The sun shall be turned 
into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great 
and terrible day of the Lord come." The moon is our sis- 
ter republic, Mexico. While the sun was darkened by our 
Civil War, France stole in and conquered Mexico ; and for 
a short time she was under the control of France. And 
France was one of the kingdoms that became blood, when 
the second angel poured out his vial (or bowl) into the sea, 
and it became blood. — Rev. xvi: 3. The heaven that de- 
parted like a scroll was our great Republic dissolving. I 
will here remark that our national flag looks like the starry 
heavens, and for this reason it is called heaven (figurative- 



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ly) in Revelation. The opening of the seals by Christ 
shows things that would come to pass in the world. But 
the pouring out of the bowls of God's wrath caused those 
things to come to pass. So in studying the seven seals, and 
the seven' trumpets, and the seven last plagues, we can see 
that in part they refer to the same things, and they all 
point to Christ's second coming. And they also show that 
Christ will come in wrath, (v. 17) "for the great day of His 
wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand? " 

A great day of Cod's wrath is spoken of in Is. xiii: 13, 
" Therefore I will shake the heavens ; and the earth shall 
remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, 
and in the day of His fierce anger." Psalms ii: 5, "Then 
shall He speak to them in His wrath, and vex them in His 
sore displeasure." Verse 9th, "Thou shalt break them 
with a rod of iron ; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a 
potter's vessel." Psalm lxxii: 4, u He shall judge the poor 
of the people : He shall save the children of the needy, and 
shall break in pieces the oppressor." Psalm ex, 5, " The 
Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the 
day of His wrath." Rev. xix: 15, "And He shall rule 
them with a rod of iron, and he treacleth the winepress of 
the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." All of these 
go to prove that God will come in wrath to set up His 
kingdom on earth. 

Seventh Chapter. 

We now come to the seventh chapter of Revelation, to 
the one hundred and forty and four thousand. This seal- 
ing was done between the opening of the sixth seal and 
the opening of the seventh seal, in a time of war ; or, in a 
precarious time. In A. I). L863, when the Emancipation 
Proclamation went into force, one hundred and forty and 
four thousand of the colored slaves enlisted in the United 
States army to tight for freedom. They were called Israel 
because they were in bondage, like Israel of old. And God 
has set them free. They are now God's new testament 
Israel. It reads: "There were one hundred and forty- 
four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. 



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But the tribe of Dan is not mentioned in the list. But in 
the great war for freedom, that is over the ancients, Israel 
had very little to do with it. Besides this one hundred and 
forty-four thousand, there was an innumerable multitude 
of all nations clothed with white robes, and palms of vic- 
tory in their hands. The palm is an emblem of victory. 
This victorious multitude was the iVmerican army of 1863. 
The Americans are composed of all languages. " And they 
cried with a loud voice saying : Salvation to our God which 
s'itteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." As those 
one hundred and forty-four thousand are spoken of in Rev. 
xiv. chapter, reference will again be made to them. 
Eighth Chapter. 

Between the opening of the seals and the sounding of 
the trumpets, the Apostle saw an angel standing by the 
altar, having a golden censer. " And there was given unto 
him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers 
of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the 
throne." The smoke of the incense with the prayers of the 
saints ascended up before God, out of the angel's hand." 
This appears to be a time of prosperity and peace to the 
Church on earth. " But as soon as the Church offended God 
with their prayers, and with their songs of praise, and 
began to offer strange fire before the Lord, then Gocl con- 
sumed them by fire from the altar, like the sons of Aaron." 
. — Leviticus x: 2. 

In the work of this angel there is a striking illustration 
of the intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ in His offering 
to God the prayers of the saints. But there are no words 
spoken, and we have to come to conclusions by the action 
of the angel. When the angel took the censer and filled it 
with fire and cast the contents of the censer to the earth, 
we find there are great changes produced in the world. 
We will call this fire the fire of God's wrath. And the 
effect of this fire on the earth is very much like the vials of 
God's wrath. This angel is spoken of in Rev. xiv: 18, as 
having power over fire, the sacred fire. 

We will now consider the effects of this sacred fire 



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upon the earth. And there were voices. These were 
inflamable speeches and contentions, and the earthquake 
was a division of a government, or a kingdom, or an em- 
pire ; and the thunderings and lightnings were war with 
the cannon and musketry, which resembles, in many 
respects, thunder, and lightning, and hail. 

Let no reader of scripture think that those thunderings 
that were heard by the apostle were mere empty sounds, 
for they are the first warnings of the wars and bloodshed 
that God will visit the earth with after the invention of 
gunpowder, which was not invented for more than a thou- 
sand years after the apostle heard those sounds. The 
sounding of the trumpets shows when those events take 
place, and in what countries they take place. 

"And the first angel sounded, and there followed hail 
and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the 
earth." 

The earth here spoken of is not the whole world, but a 
particular part of the earth ; and the trees and grass here 
spoken of are the beautiful and tender ones of earth. 

"And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great 
mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the 
third part of the sea became blood." The sea here spoken 
of is not literally the sea, but different countries, allied 
together under different rulers. It is the country out of 
which the Apostle saw the beast arise, spoken of in Rev.. 
xiii. chapter. This burning mountain was a fiery law, or 
edict, that did destroy the one-third of everything that was 
pure and holy in that land : called, in figurative language, 
the sea. 

"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great 
star from heaven, burning as it were a Lamp; and it fell 
upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains 
of waters." The terms rivers and fountains of waters arc 
also figurative names, and are countries adjoining or near 
those countries called the sea. 

This star, or meteor, that fell from heaven, probably 
was some swift general that visited a part of those conn- 



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tries, and left the bitter dregs of his cruel doctrine among 
the people. 

" And the fourth angel sounded ; and a third part of the 
sun was smitten, and a third part of the moon, and a third 
part of the stars." This fourth trumpet sounds for the 
United States and our troubles when one-third of our stars 
(states) seceded. The three last trumpets are proclaimed 
by the flying angel to be fearful woes. 

" And the fifth angel sounded ; and I saw a star fall 
from the heaven unto the earth, and to him was given the 
key of the bottomless pit ; and he opened the bottomless 
pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke 
of a great furnace, and the sun, and the air were darkened 
by reason of the smoke of the pit." 

This smoke is darkness, and is thought by commenta- 
tors to be the Mahomet delusion. The Turks are here 
described, in verse 8, as having the faces of men, and 
long hair as women, and iron breastplates, &c. As so 
much has been said about the Turks by others, pass with 
me to the sixth trumpet. 

"And the sixth angel sounded ; and I heard a voice from 
the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God, 
saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, loose the 
four angels which are bound at the great river Euphrates. 
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for 
the day, and for the hour, and month, and year, for to slay 
the one-third of men." (From the new translation.) " And 
the numbers of the armies of the horsemen were twice ten 
thousand times ten thousand, and I heard the number of 
them. Thus I saw the horses and them that sat on them 
having breastplates as of fire, and of jacinth, or hyacinth, 
and of brimstone." These colors are red, blue, and yel- 
low. These colors are found upon the American uniforms. 
These four angels, who were bound like apprentices, of old, 
were there to receive a complete military training to do 
their work of destruction completely, and at a set time ; 
and the time is near. 

There never was such an army of horsemen in the world 



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at one time. This must be the treacling of the winepress 
spoken of in Rev. xiv: 20. This river Euphrates is not the 
river Euphrates that ancient Babylon was built upon, but 
the river on which the mystic Babylon was built. For all 
great cities have their rivers ; the city of God has her river: 
and so the mystic Babylon had her river ; but it is now 
dried up. The one-third of men that is spoken of that will 
be killed, are soldiers on the field of battle, for it reads: 
" They were killed by fire, and by smoke, and by brimstone." 
This is the way it appeared to the Apostle, and so it looks 
to one at a distance, unacquainted with gunpowder. 

In this great and decisive battle, cavalry will do the 
most of the fighting, for the reason that, after the first 
day's fight, heavy rains will flood the battle-field, until 
flood, and blood of men and horses will come to the horses' 
bridles. — Rev. xiv: 20. This great battle will take place in 
one of our western valleys, called the valley of the passen- 
ger on the East of the sea. — Ezekiel xxxix: 11. This 
country is God's land of Israel, His New Testament Israel. 

Gog and Magog will never go with a destructive army 
against the land of Palestine, for the reason that the 38th 
and 39th chapters of Ezekiel would be against them. But 
they will come against this land ; for they are blinded, and 
many others are also blinded. They cannot see that this 
is the land on which the light of heaven beams. 

"And I saw another mighty angel come down from 
heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was 14)011 his 
head, and his face was, as it were, the sun. and his feet as 
pillars of fire." — Rev. x: 11. This glorious personage is 
supposed to be the Lord Jesus Christ. His garment was a 
cloud to signify that His coming at this time should be 
seen darkly. He had a rainbow upon His head to show 
that He still remembered His covenant. His countenance 
had the appearance of the sun to show His governing and 
enlightening power over the human mind, and His legs 
were like pillars of fire to denote the purity of His govern- 
ment. This angel proclaims, with an oath, that time 
should be no longer. Hut iu the days of the voice of the 



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seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery 
of God should be finished. 

By referring to Rev. xi: 15, we find that when the 
seventh angel did sound, there were great voices in heaven 
saying, " The kingdom of the world has become the king- 
dom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign for- 
ever and ever." The sounding of the seventh trumpet 
marks a new era in the world. It shows a government 
changing from a worldly government to a heavenly gov- 
ernment. This change took place in our late war. Our 
government was a bright government before the war, but 
it was oppressive and worldly in its laws concerning slav- 
ery. But God sent this war upon us to do away with 
slavery. (New Version). 

Eleventh Chapter. 

" And there was given me a reed like unto a rod ; and 
the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of 
God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But 
the court that is without the temple, leave out, and meas- 
ure it not ; for it is given unto the Gentiles, and the Holy 
City shall they tread under foot forty and two months." 

This forty and two months, during which the Holy City 
is to be trampled under foot, is literally forty and two 
months, or three and. a half years ; and it is yet in the 
future. The time this takes place will be after Christ's 
kingdom is set up, and is no longer in a movable condition. 
This generation will witness a time that God's kingdom, 
and God's people will see a time of cruel armies and war, 
and destruction of life and property. But in the end they 
will come off victorious. 

The time that the two witnesses prophesied was a thou- 
sand two hundred and three score days. This was twelve 
hundred and sixty years that the Church of God was in a 
movable condition, and about A. D. 1850 those witnesses 
were slain. They had no more power to stand up for civil 
and religious liberty, but for a short time were put down. 

About 1850, France lost its liberty. The beast, Louis 
Napoleon, became emperor. Hungary lost her liberty 



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before France. And Louis Bonaparte sent the Emperor of 
Russia a gift for helping Austria put down Hungary, while 
he was yet President of France. At that time, the Repub- 
lic of Domingo became, for a short time a monarchy. At 
that time the fugitive slave law was passed in the United 
States ; and Napoleon sent an army to Italy and put down 
their liberty. This was a very discouraging time for lib- 
erty, but the three and a half years soon passed away. And 
since that time God and liberty have prevailed until, in 
A. D. 1865, the witnesses ascended to heaven in a cloud, 
when slavery fell in the United States ; and in Europe the 
witnesses have risen and will continue to rise, until all 
shall gain their God-given liberties. 

The tenth part of the city which fell was France when 
she fell from a Republic to an Empire. For France is one 
of the ten kingdoms that rose out of the sea. — Rev. xili: 1. 

" And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great 
voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world is 
become the kingdom of the Lord and of His Christ, and He 
shall reign forever and ever.'' 

The sounding of the seventh trumpet shows the time 
that Christ's kingdom was set up, which was done by a 
change in our government, that was brought about by our 
war in 1861—5, when God set His people free. 

When God redeemed Israel of old from bondage, it was 
a new era to them. So this is a new era to the American 
people. The change that our government underwent 
caused it to become the kingdom of Christ, and in it He 
shall reign forever. Christ is now our King, and from this 
time onward, He will defend us against all foes, domestic 
or foreign. 

This kingdom is the only kingdom Christ ever had 
sincn He was on earth. All other governments have mon- 
archs to rule them, or some family that claims the right to 
rule them. 

When the ten kingdoms of Europe came into existence, 
spoken of in Rev. xiii: 1, 2, it reads thus: "And the dragon 
gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." 



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Here let me ask to whom do those ten kingdoms belong? 
Do they belong to the dragon or to Christ? 

This kingdom that Christ has set up will last forever. 
This is the kingdom for which Christ taught his disciples 
to pray, " Thy kingdom come : thy will be done on earth 
as it is in heaven." — Math, vi : 10. This prayer has been 
repeated, clay by day, since Christ was upon earth, and will 
be till His second coining ; and still His people do not look 
for Him to reign on earth. 

This prayer has been offered by the lisping infant, and 
by the aged sire, day by day ; and Christ's kingdom is now 
commenced on earth and will continue forever, a glorious 
kingdom. In Rev. xi: IS, it reads thus: "And the nations 
were angry, and thy wrath has come, &c." From this 
verse it appears that Christ comes in wrath, and the nations 
are angry, and idolatrous, and oppressive, and full of wrath 
against Christ and His kingdom ; and Christ comes to' 
destroy those who destroy the earth, and not those who 
are righteous. So the coming of Christ at this time is not 
the final judgment, but the setting up of Christ's kingdom 
on earth. 

Twelfth Chapter. 

"And a great sign or wonder was seen in heaven; a 
woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet 
and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." — Bei\ xii: 1. 

A woman in figurative language is a city or a combina- 
tion, or the Church of God. The heaven that this woman 
was in is not the heaven of glory, but a heavenly country. 
The question is asked in Solomon's Song, chapter vi: 10. 
" Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the 
moon, clear as the sun. and terrible as an army with ban- 
ners?" This question might be answered by saying this 
woman is our glorious Republic, the great defender of civil 
and religious liberty. This woman brings forth a man 
child who was to " rule all nations with a rod of iron." 

" And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and 
behold a great reel dragon having seven heads and ten 
horns, and seven crowns upon his heads, and his tail drew 



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the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to 
the earth." By casting the stars to the earth the dragon 
did great wonders, but he fails to destroy the man child, 
for a power greater than he takes care of the child or 
ruler, and exalts him to God's throne. We find by reading 
the Scriptures that everything that is pure and lovely on 
earth Satan tries to overthrow. He was found in the Gar- 
den of Eden and did his deadly work, and of late he was 
found in our Republic trying to overthrow it. The dragon 
goes to work and elevates another woman or combination 
called the Mystic Babylon, and she was arrayed in purple, 
and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones, and 
pearls. So that this last woman may appear in greater 
splendor than the woman that was arrayed with the sun, 
the dragon dissolves the first heaven by drawing the one- 
third of the stars to the earth, and this Mystic Babylon is 
set a queen over these fallen stars ; this is the cause of the 
war in heaven. — Rev. xvii: 4. Rev. xviii: 7. This Mystic 
Babylon was the Southern Confederacy. 

•" And his tail drew the one-third of the stars of heaven 
and did cast them to the earth." These stars were the 
stars, or states, that seceded from the Union in 1861. For 
eleven out of thirty-three stars seceded. This caused war 
in this starry heaven, for it was dissolved, and the old 
heaven passed away with a great noise of cannon and hard 
fighting. But now these stars have been replaced in the 
new heaven. 

We will now return to the first woman. Read [saiah 
lxvi: 8. "Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen 
such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in a 
day, or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as 
Zion travailed she brought forth her children." Also 
[saiah lxvi: 7. "Before she travailed she brought forth. 
Before her pain came she was delivered of a man child/' 

Zion, or the Church, is compared to a woman : this na- 
tion is the nation thai was born in one day, on .Inly 4th, 
A. I). 177C>. And this is the heavfcnly country in which the 
man child was horn. This man child is our ruler, or 



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President. George Washington was the first of a class of 
rulers that will in time rule all nations with a rod of iron. 

This man child is said to be caught up to God, and to 
His throne. This shows that the throne of God is still 
above the heaven in which the man child was born. And 
the woman has to fly to the wilderness for safety. This 
also shows that this heaven the woman was in is not the 
heaven of Glory, but a heavenly country, whose national 
banner looks like the constellation Lyra, from which the 
design of our flag was taken. 

There is but very little said about this man child, but 
every word is a volume. He is to rule all nations with a 
rod of iron ; and God has exalted him to His throne. So 
the government of this nation is one that God will defend. 

The woman who brough forth this ruler is our Repub- 
lic, or the Federal compact. This woman and the man 
child have the favor of God, and the wrath of the Devil. 

When the ten kingdoms of Europe came into power, 
the Dragon was well pleased. " And the Dragon gave him 
his power, and his throne, and great authority. "-Rev. xiii: 2. 
But when our Republic comes into existence the Dragon 
makes war with it, and causes the woman to flee to the 
wilderness for a thousand two hundred and three-score 
days. These days are literal ; or three and one-half years ; 
that the war in heaven lasts. 

It is said of the man child that he was caught up to 
God and to his throne. By this it appears that the man 
child is highly favored of God. But we must remember 
that he is to rule all nations with iron rule. While the 
woman is timid, and flees for refuge, her son goes to the 
head of the army, and conquers the Dragon and his army. 
We will leave this woman and man child for a short time, 
and go to another standpoint, and view the second woman, 
and the Dragon. 

"And he carried me away in the Spirit, into a wilder- 
ness ; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet colored 
beast full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and 
ten horns." — Rev. xvii: 3. Also: "Here is the mind that 



18 REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 



hath wisdom ; the seven heads are seven mountains on 
which the woman sitteth." — Rev. xvii: 9. 

It is said of these mountains, " And Babylon the great 
was remembered in the sight of God, to give unto her the 
cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath, and every 
island fled away, and the mountains were not found."— 
Rev. xvi: 19. 

These islands were States' Rights, and the mountains 
were laws that supported slavery. 

" And there was war in heaven : Michael and his angels 
fought against the Dragon and his angels." — Rev. xii: 7. 

The Dragon goes into this war with great power. He 
has this Mystic Babylon on his side ; and she, like Babylon 
of old, was a mighty war power. And the Apostle saw her 
drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood 
of the martyrs of Jesus. 

This woman is a city, or combination, that is called the 
angels of the Dragon. The Dragon goes into the war a 
great monster ; but comes out of it with his seven heads 
broken, and his ten horns all gone ; and this Mystic Baby- 
lon defeated, and swept from earth. This was the first de- 
feat with which the Dragon ever met ; and the first victo- 
ry on the field of battle that God's people ever won. And 
from this time forth this man child will always be vic- 
torious, until all the monarchs of the East are conquered. 

The casting out of the Dragon is the establishing of 
Christ's kingdom. 

"And I- heard a great voice in heaven saying, Now is 
come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our 
God, and the authority of His Christ." — Rev. xii: 10. By 
this we can see that Christ's kingdom is now set up. But 
Satan will give us one more fight. He has gone down upon 
the inhabitants of the earth, and of the sea, to stir them 
up; and he will return, filled with water, to sweep this 
woman from the face of the earth. These waters arc mul- 
titudes of people, or a mighty army. Again the woman 
has to fly to the wilderness. lk And there were given to the 
woman the two wings of the great eagle." This is our 



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American eagle. This time the woman has all the power 
of our government. She again flies into the wilderness, to 
her old retreat, until the war is over. Not for twelve hun- 
dred and sixty years, as some would have it, but for three 
and a half }^ears. 

After this war is past Satan will lose his power for one 
thousand years. 

" And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten 
horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems."— 
Rev. xiii: 1. Commentators agree that these ten horns are 
ten kingdoms in Europe ; and that the head that was smit- 
ten uiito death was the Napoleon line of kings, or emperors, 
that have now fallen. I think this view is correct ; but 
perhaps one more Napoleon will arise and give the world 
and liberty trouble. And in the forty and two months, or 
three years and six months, that he will continue, he will 
cause more blood to be shed than any man that has ever 
lived on the earth. It is said that he opened his mouth for 
blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his 
tabernacle ; even them that dwell in the heaven. 

By this we see that the time these blasphemies are 
uttered is after Christ has set up his tabernacle on earth. 

" And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Be- 
hold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He shall 
dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God 
Himself shall be with them, and be their God." — Rev. xx: 3- 
After these things, the above-mentioned blasphemies will 
be uttered, and he that utters them will come with millions 
in force to destroy our liberties : and this is the time that 
the Dragon will cast the water out of his mouth to carry 
away the woman that brought forth the man child. 
Fourteenth Chapter. 

" And 1 saw and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount 
Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thou- 
sand, having his name and the name of his Father on their 
foreheads." — Rev. xiv: 1. This one hundred and forty and 
four thousand are the colored soldiers that enlisted in the 
war that gave them their freedom. For, strange as it may 



20 REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, 

appear, there were one hundred and forty-four thousand 
that did enlist in the war. 

God in His providence brought about our late war, while 
man, by their wicked designs, brought on the war to per- 
petuate slavery. God's intention was to destroy slavery. 
This one hundred and forty-four thousand were the first of 
a class that was purchased out of the earth. It is said they 
were not defiled with women. They are an exception to 
the class to which they belong. Be this as it may, the 
whole class is now free, and enjoying their God-given 
rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
happiness. God has a claim on Israel of old because He 
redeemed them from slavery. So these are His New Tes- 
tament Israel. They are singing a new song of redemp- 
tion, and will sing this song for generations to come. It is 
the commencement of a new era with them ; and not with 
them only, but for the United States. When Moses and 
Israel came out of Egypt, it was a new era to them ; and 
when Christ came to earth to die for sinners, it was the 
commencement of a new era to Christian nations. And 
when Christ comes to free His people, and to destroy them 
that destroy the earth ; and set up His kingdom, and give 
it to the people of God, it will be a new era to the whole 
world. 

We will now call your attention to the reaping of the 
harvest, and the gathering of the vintage, of the earth ; for 
they are dreadful calamities to earthly minded men. as 
they will forever blight their hopes*. — Mat xiii: 39. The 
enemy that sowed the tares is the Devil ; the harvest is the 
end of the world, &c. Christ comes to reap the earth in a 
mysterious way, on a white cloud without appearance of a 
storm, but this harvest will forever destroy the hopes of 
the wicked, for the tares are burned up. They are driven 
from high positions, and the righteous are exalted to 
power. The change will be so great, this earth will be- 
come a paradise immediately after the harvest of the 
earth. The vintage of the earth will be gathered. This 
will be more destructive than the harvest. For the clusters 



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of the vine of the earth will be thrown into the winepress 
of the wrath of God, and the blood will come to the horses' 
bridles, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs. 

The reaping of the harvest and the treading of the 
winepress are dreadful wars. These two wars will destroy 
the power of the wicked all over the world. The harvest 
of the earth is past. The war that our country has passed 
through was the harvest. The treading of the winepress 
may be expected about forty-five years after the harvest. 
This generation will see it. 

The Seven Last Plagues. 

We will now consider the seven last plagues, or the 
seven bowls of God's wrath poured upon the earth. 

These last plagues, like the first plagues that we read 
of, are sent on the world for particular sins. One sin was 
the killing of God's people in Europe ; and another was 
enslaving his people in America. 

Let us consider the first plagues, sent on Egypt. God's 
ways of dealing toward the nations for national sins in all 
ages, are nearly the same. But these last plagues are very 
extensive ; and they will bring all kingdoms to God's 
terms. He requires unconditional surrender, and will 
have it as he did of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. For each 
plague will be more and more severe until liberty is 
granted to all ; not only in the United States, but every- 
where on God's earth. 

Sixteenth Chapter. 
"And the first angel went and poured out his bowl into 
the earth ; and it became a noisome and grievous sore 
upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and which 
worshipped his image." — Rev. xvi: 2. 

This is called a noisome sore. It was the voice of lib- 
erty, and the speeches for liberty in France and the United 
States. Napoleon Third was the beast, and the image was 
fonud in the United States. These countries were grieved 
at the voice for liberty. In that way it was a noisome 
sore. 

" And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea ; 



22 REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 



and it became blood as of a dead man ; and every living 
soul died, &c, even the things that were in the sea." 

" And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and 
fountains of waters, and they became blood. And 1 heard 
the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art thou which 
art, and which wast, thou holy one, because thou didst 
thus judge. For they poured out the blood of saints and 
of prophets, and blood thou hast given them to drink: 
They are worthy/' 

By this we see that this judgment is inflicted because 
they poured out the blood of God's people, at different 
times, until these nations are ripe for destruction, and 
their end is at hand. Spiritual* death is part of their 
calamity. But that is not all. Their blood will flow like 
waters, for the innocent blood they have shed. These 
countries called sea, and rivers, are in Europe, where the 
beast rose out of the sea, with seven heads and ten horns, 
and a crown or diadem on each horn. — Rev. xiii: 1. 

"And the fourth angel poured his bowl upon the sun, 
and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire ; and men 
were scorched with great heat." — Rev. xvi: 8, 9. 

This fourth bowl was poured- upon the United States, 
where the woman was arrayed with the sun. As a nation 
we have been scorched with political heats until we came 
to a civil war among ourselves. All good men have 
grieved over our political heats. 

"And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of 
the beast ; and his kingdom was darkened ; and they 
gnawed their tongues for pain." — Rev. xvi: 10. 

This bowl must have been poured upon the throne of 
the Napoleons when the First Napoleon went against Rus- 
sia. That was, in him, a mistake. 

And when Napoleon Third made war on Prussia, it was 
a blind move ; and it was also a mistake when he made 
war on Mexico. The reason why the Napoleon head is 
called a beast, is that they make war on nations without a 
cause or quarrel. They like to shed blood. 

"And the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great 



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river Euphrates ; and the water thereof was dried up, that 
the way might be ready for the kings that come from the 
sunrising. " 

This great river Euphrates is the stream that the Mys- 
tic Babylon is built upon. Babylon, of old, was built on 
the Euphrates river ; and Darius, the Median, took the city 
by turning the river from its natural channel. So this 
mystic river is dried up by taking away the compromises 
that defended the Mystic Babylon. 

The apostle also saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, 
coming out of the mouth of the Dragon, and out of the 
mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false 
prophet. They are said to be spirits of devils, working 
signs, which- go forth unto the kings of the whole world, 
to gather them together, unto the war of the great day of 
God the Almighty. 

These unclean spirits have the power to assemble the 
whole world to battle. But the object in meeting in mass 
is to destroy God's people and God's kingdom off the face 
of the earth. When they are assembled, Christ will come 
as a thief in the night and overthrow this vast army. 

This is the decisive battle that is coming shortly upon 
the world — the treading of the winepress of the wrath of 
God. The kings of the whole world will make war on 
Democracy, or Republicanism, or both. This world is too 
small for both Monarchy and Republicanism to live in it. 
One of them must die ; but we will say that God and lib- 
erty will live. 

" And the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the 
air ; and there came forth a great voice out of the temple 
from the throne, saying, It is done." 

This voice from the throne was the voice of the Son of 
God. It is like the voice that came from the cross, when 
he proclaimed, It is finished. 

The bowls are now poured out ; the last upon the air. 
This will make changes and commotions all over the 
world. But the first calamity is a great earthquake ; and 
the Jgreat city was divided into three parts, and the cities 



24 REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 



of the Nations fell. This great city, which was divided, 
was our great Republic, or the Union of our States that was 
dissolved by secession. One part of the people were loyal, 
orfe part were rebels or Confederates, and one part were 
neutrals. 

By this rebellion, Babylon the Great was overthrown. 
And Babylon the Great was remembered in the sight of 
God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness 
of his wrath ; and every island fled away, and the moun- 
tains were not found. These islands were States' Rights, 
and the mountains were the strong laws that supported 
slavery ; such as the Fugitive Slave Law, Mason and 
Dixon's line, the Missouri Compromise, the Constitution of 
the United States, and the Power of the Confederate army. 
But these mountains all disappear in God's judgments. 
This shows that these mountains are not literal moun- 
tains, for they are not found. 

" And great hail, every hail about the weight of a talent, 
cometh down out of heaven upon men." This is explained 
by our mode of warfare. The city of Charleston, S. C, 
suffered during the war by this hail. Shot and shells were 
thrown into the air from gunboats miles from the city, and 
fell into it like hail comes down from the clouds. 

It is said the cities of the nations fell at the pouring 
out of the seventh bowl upon the air. This shows that all 
the governments of earth will undergo a change. 

" And he carried me away in the spirit, into a wilder- 
ness, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet coloured 
beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and 
ten horns." — Rev. xvii: 3. 

Commentators have made a mistake by supposing this 
beast to'be the same as the beast that rose out of the sea, 
described in Revelations, Thirteenth Chapter. The beast 
that rose out of the sea was like a leopard, and his feet 
were as"the;feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of 
a lion. ThisJ)east is seated upon the throne of the Dra- 
gon.* But the J)east of Revelations, Seventeenth Chapter, 
is in the wilderness, and is scarlet colored, and has a 



REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 25 

woman seated on his heads. The Dragon has no throne to 
give to this woman, so he carries her on his head until he 
gets a throne in this new country. 

" Here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads 
are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth, and they 
are seven kings. The five are fallen, the one is, the other 
is not yet come ; and when he cometh he must continue a 
little while, and the beast that was, and is not, is himself, 
also, an eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into per- 
dition. "• — Rev. xvii: 9. 

The Apostle was shown this harlot after all the bowls 
of God's wrath were poured upon the earth, and but a 
short time before her fall. He was told that one of the 
seven kings then existed ; five had fallen ; and one had yet 
to come. And that the beast was of the seven, and was 
the eighth. 

Then there are ten kings that constitute the ten horns. 
And these ten kings have power as kings only one hour 
with the beast. 

We find here two classes of kings ; and they are all 
kings that are in some way connected with the woman and 
the beast ; but they belong to two classes of politics. The 
first seven are pro-slavery out and out. The ten kings are 
anti-slavery. But the Constitution of the United States 
and those mountains caused them to let the beast rule 
until God removes those mountains. 

It is said of these ten kings : They had power as kings 
one hour with the beast. This is about the power of our 
Presidents. They have power as kings for only a short 
time. Then they have but one kingdom, and they take 
rule by turns. 

When Lincoln took the President's chair, he was the 
sixteenth President. The beast that Avas the eighth, and 
was of *the seven, was Jefferson Davis — a man like the 
Bonaparte head of France — usurpers ; bloody men. They 
are the beast that received the deadly wound by the 
sword, and did live, or will live yet; and that France 
worships. Andjwe find an image of Napoleon in our land 



26 REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 



that was worshiped. But the image was broken, and the 
idols are abolished in this land. 

" The woman that was seated on the mountains is called 
a city ; and the church of God is also called a city ; but this 
city is a wicked combination, that bought and sold slaves 
and souls of men." — Rev. xviii: 13. 

The kings of the earth that she reigned over was the 
seventeen kings referred to above. 

a Ancl again they said Alleluia, and her smoke rose up 
forever and ever." 

This figure of her smoke rising up forever, is taken 
from the destruction of Sodom, and the smoke that Abra- 
ham saw the morn that Sodom was overthrown. — Genesis 
xix : 28. 

"And I heard, as it were the voice of a great multitude, 
and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of 
mighty thunders, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord our God, 
the Almighty, reigneth." 

This is the way the American people rejoiced when the 
Southern Confederacy was overthrown. They shouted ; 
they thanked God ; and the cannons sounded all over the 
North. Never was there such mighty thunderings over a 
victory. 

And this victory shows the commencement of Christ's 
reign. "For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth."-— Rev. 
xix: 6. 

The downfall of Mystery Babylon shows the setting up 
of Christ's kingdom. One more decisive victory, and then 
a glorious peace will come for one thousand years. 

By reflecting on the downfall of the Mystic Babylon, all 
can see that the overthrow of this power is the setting up 
of one of the strong pillars of Christ's kingdom. 

We will now consider the overthrowing of all Anti- 
Christian powers, that are in the way of Christ's kingdom. 
Nineteenth Chapter. 
"And I saw the heaven opened, and behold a white 
horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True : 
and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. And 



REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 27 

his eyes are as a flame of fire ; and upon his head are many 
diadems," &c. This glorious personage is Christ. He has 
various names. In St. John's gospel, First Chapter, He is 
called the Word of God. But here His name on this occa- 
sion is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. For He is 
seated on the white horse in heaven to conquer all earthly 
kings. 

This is the last great conflict here in this heaven. 

"The unclean spirits, like frogs, will gather all the 
monarchs of earth to the great clay of Gocl the Almighty, 
with the beast at their head, and then shall appear the 
sign of the Son of Man in heaven. • And then shall all the 
tribes of the earth mourn. " — Matheiv xxiv: 30. 

" But a few years back the Dragon, or the sign of the 
Dragon, was seen in heaven.'" — Rev. xii: 3. 

"But Satan is whipped out of heaven: and he will 
gather the tribes of earth to whip Christ out of this same 
heaven. But they shall fail to whip either Christ or his 
army. Then shall they wail because of him ; even so. 
Amen." 

" And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that 
with it he should smite the nations;" This is His word or 
the gospel. 

Yes, He should have conquered all the world with this 
sword ; but when they have a knowledge of God's word 
and still delight in murder, and unjust war, and the 
nations are trying to dethrone Christ, God comes to assist 
His own people and whips them at their own game. He 
now rules them with a rod of iron, and tramples them in 
the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty 
God. This is the treacling of the winepress. 

k 'And 1 saw an angel standing in the sun." This sun 
that the angel is standing in is the same sun that the 
woman was arrayed with in Revelations, Twelfth Chapter. 
This sun is the great center around which our bright stars 
revolve ; each star is a State of our glorious Union. 

And this shows where the birds are invited to come to 
the supper of the Great God. This will be the second sup- 



28 REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 

per that Christ will institute. The first supper was insti- 
tuted to commemorate His death by the hands of His ene- 
mies. The second supper will be instituted to commem- 
orate the death of his enemies. Both suppers will be com- 
memorated through all coming time. As did the first, so 
will the last commence a new era. In this fight, the beast 
will be taken, and with him the false prophet. This false 
prophet is alive at the time the beast is taken and cannot 
be Mahomet. Time will show who he is. 

The Beast is the Chief Prince of this great army. I 
think he will be a prince that will arise out of the head 
that received the deadly wound by the sword and did live. 
Time will tell who he is. In Ezekiel xxxviii: 2, he is called 
the Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal. 

This great battle will now be viewed from a different 
standpoint, i. e. from the Old Testament Scriptures. 

"Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning 
hooks into spears: Let the weak say, I am strong." — Joel 
Hi: 10. 

The times in which we live are the times in which the 
plowshare is made into weapons of war. Look at the 
nations how they are preparing for war. Same chapter. 
Thirteenth verse, reads : " Put ye in the sickle, for the 
harvest is ripe ; come, get ye down, for the press is full ; 
the fats overflow, for their wickedness is great." Four- 
teenth verse : " Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of 
decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of 
decision." Fifteenth verse: "The sun and the moon shall 
be darkened and the stars shall withdraw their shining." 

These verses have reference to the harvest, and, also, to 
the treading of the winepress. The harvest is past and the 
tares are burnt up. 

The vine of the earth is yet to be gathered. The valley 
of decision is some part of the Mississippi valley. The 
Lord shall roar out of Zion and utter Bis voice from Jeru- 
salem ; /. e. the New Jerusalem, not the old, for it is dead. 
Bead Ezekiel xxxix: 17: "And thou Son of Man, thus 
sayeth the Lord God, speak unto every feathered fowl, and 



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to every beast of the field ; assemble yourselves and come ; 
gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice upon the 
mountains of Israel that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. 
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood 
of the princes of the earth," &c. This is the same supper 
and battle described in Revelation xix : 17. 

The reader must remember that this land is the land of 
God's people ; and the Israel that has been redeemed from 
captivity. 

Read Isaiah ii : 4 : "And He shall judge among the 
nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat 
their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into 
pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against 
nation : neither shall they learn war any more." Again : 
Micah iv : 3: "And He shall judge among many people, 
and rebuke strong nations afar off ; and they shall beat 
their swords into ploughshares and their spears into prun- 
ing hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sworcl against 
nation, neither shall they learn war any more." 

The nations that are rebuked are far off nations. They 
are far from the nation where they get this rebuke. 
They will be ashamed of their power and bravery. So 
much so that they will give up war. And, here, let me tell 
you that England, France and Germany will never change 
the sword into a plowshare until they are well whipped. 

After this decisive battle, the nations will be abased ; 
and then they will hear the gospel. This is the remnant 
that will be slain by the sword that proceedeth out of the 
mouth of Christ. After this great battle, Satan will lose 
his power over the nations of the earth for a thousand 
years. 

And the souls of them that suffered martyrdom, will be 
quickened by the power of Gocl to such a degree that they 
will enjoy Christ's glorious reign. The Apostle did not see 
their bodies, neither will the living see their souls. 

At the end of this thousand years the wicked are said 
to live again. That is. their souls will be quickened in 
such a way that a spirit of war will exist ; and Satan, with 



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all the powers of darkness, will stir up the old grudge, that 
will exist in their minds ; and again they will come against 
the United States, and surround the camp of the saints, 
and the beloved city, (or the New Jerusalem), which will 
be in the United States. 

"This vast army will be cut off by fire coming clown 
from heaven like it did, or was. in the days of Elijah, the 
prophet." — Second Kings i: 8. 

After this destruction by fire, the people of God will 
continue to reign for ages without opposition. Dan 
vii: 18 : "But the saints of the Most High shall take the 
kingdom, and shall possess the kingdom forever, even for- 
ever and ever." 

"And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming 
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned 
for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven 
saying: Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men: and 
He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people; 
and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God." — 
Rev. xxl: 2, 3. 

These verses show T plainly that this New Jerusalem is 
on earth. God comes down from heaven and dwells with 
men. But some will say, in the Twenty-first Chapter, fifth 
verse, it reads : " There shall be no more death, neither 
sorrow, nor crying: neither shall there be any more pain, 
for the former things are passed away." The death here 
spoken of is death by war, and destruction by Him that 
sat on the pale horse. 

" And I looked, and behold, a pale horse ; and the name 
of Him that sat on him was Death." — Rev. vi: 8. 

And the sorrow and crying is also the pain of heart and 
wholesale weeping caused by war. 

Again: in that happy day the art of healing, and the 
laws of life, will be well understood ; and the powers to 
heal disease, restored to the church. Again: the mission- 
aries of the Cross, whom Christ will send forth, will heal 
the sick. And besides this, there will be no more spiritual 
death. 



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And he that sat upon the throne said: "Behold, I 
make all things new.*' This is literally coming to pass. 
Look at the changes and improvements all over the world. 
There are new modes of farming, new ways of traveling, 
and of sending news, and of printing ; and there will be 
new forms of government,- and a new Jerusalem, and a 
new era ; and a new heaven, and a new earth, and a glori- 
ous time of peace. All of these things will be new ; and 
many other things that we have no knowledge of. 

In Revelations xxi: 9, 10, the Apostle was shown the 
Bride — the Lamb's wife ; that great city — the Holy Jeru- 
salem — descending out of heaven from God. This Bride — 
the Lamb's wife — is the Church of the Living God. It 
descends out of heaven from God. 

This church is chartered in heaven ; and Christ comes 
down with a retinue of angels to build up the city on 
earth. This city, by measurement, is fifteen hundred 
miles square. This is entirely too large for the land of 
Canaan ; and it is too small for the heaven of heavens. 
Can a location be found on earth? Perhaps the great Mis- 
sissippi valley would answer for such a city — with its gate- 
ways of commerce, and its network of railways, where 
trade and travel go forward day and night. 

And the time is coming when gas, or electricity, will 
light all our cities. This will banish darkness. But it is 
said of this city, that the length and breadth, and height 
of it, are equal. This height must be figurative. The 
Apostle saw no temple therein: "For the Lord God 
Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it." — Rev. xxi: 22. 

This is very different from Solomon's time. There are 
no sacrifices to offer, and God's people assemble in taber- 
nacles, and on mountains, and in groves, to worship God. 

It is also said that this city had no need of the sun, 
neither of the moon, to shine in it ; for the glory of God 
did lighten it ; and the Lamb is the light thereof. 

To explain this, I refer you to St. John ix : 5 : "As 
long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." 
Also, i: 4 : "In Him was life, and the life was the light of 



32 REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 



man." Also i: 9 : "That was the true light which lighted 
every man that cometh into the world." Again : xii: 46 : 
"I am come: a light in the world that whosoever believeth 
in me should not abide in darkness." Again, it is said : 
"There shall be no night there." And why? Because the 
darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. 

First John ii: 8: And, again, it is said: "And they 
need no candle, neither light of the sun : for the Lord God 
giveth them light ; and they shall reign forever and ever." 
The church of God needs no sun for spiritual light. The 
heathen world has always enjoyed the sun and moon for 
light ; but still they were in spiritual darkness. And all 
mankind will remain in darkness until Christ shall give 
them light. 

Again, it is said : "They shall reign forever and ever/" 
They shall reign where? Why. on earth ; not in high 
heaven, for God reigns there supreme. But His people 
will soon rule the earth. 

We will now view this city from another standpoint. 
Read Isaiah lx: 14 : The sons, also, of them that afflicted 
thee, shall come bending unto thee : and all they that 
despised thee, shall bow themselves down at the soles of 
thy feet, and they shall call thee the City of the Lord: the 
Zion of the Holy One of Israel. Whereas, thou hast been 
forsaken, and hated, so that no man went through thee. 
I will make thee an eternal excellency: a joy of many gen- 
erations. Thou shalt, also, suck the milk of the Gentiles, 
and suck the breasts of kings ; and thou shalt know that I. 
the Lord, am the Savior and Redeemer: the Mighty One of 
Jacob. For brass, I will bring gold : and for iron, I will 
bring silver; and for wood, brass; and for stones, iron. I 
will also make thy officers peace, and thine executors 
righteousness. A^iolence shall no more be heard in thy 
borders. But thou shalt call thy walls salvation, and thy 
gates praise. The sun shall be no more thy light by day: 
neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee. 
But the Lord shall bo unto thee an everlasting light, and 
thy God, thy glory. Thy sun shall no more 1 go down. 



REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 33 

neither shall thy moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall 
be thine everlasting light, and the clays of thy mourning 
shalL be ended. Thy people, also, shall be righteous. They 
shall inherit the land forever." 

By reflecting on this subject, it is evident that Christ's 
reign on earth will be a very lengthy one. In all proba- 
bility, it will continue until the earth becomes old and 
worn out. and all its mineral and vegetable treasures 
exhausted — its mines of coal, iron, tin, lead, copper, zinc, 
silver, gold, and so forth, all exhausted — and the earth 
itself will need to be changed, and renewed by fire, and 
earthquake, and other influences, until it will be renewed 
and purified. But the race of Adam will all be gone. 

The Apostle Paul, in First Corinthians xv: 25, says that 
" Christ must reign until He hath put all enemies under 
His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
Death." 

When Death and the grave are conquered, and all the 
race of Adam resurrected, this world will be a world of 
spirits. Then comes the judgment — the great day. 

St. John v: 25, says: "Verily, verily. I say unto you, 
the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear 
the voice of the Son of God ; and they that hear shall live." 
Again : v. 28 : " Marvel not at this ; for the hour is com- 
ing in which all that are in their graves shall hear His 
voice, and come forth: they that have done good unto the 
resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the 
resurrection of condemnation.'' 

Again : Revelations xx: 12 : " And 1 saw the dead, the 
small and the great, stand before God: and the books were 
opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book 
of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things 
which were written in the books, according to their 
works." 

End of the First Part. 



34 VIEW OF MONARCHY AND ITS DOWNFALL. 



PART SECOND. 



A View of Monarchy and its Downfall by a Stone 
Kingdom, as seen by Daniel, the Prophet, in Dan- 
iel ii : 31. 



This stone was cut out of the mountain without hands. 
The mountain out of which this stone was cut, is the 
church, or, rather, God's kingdom on earth. 

This stone falls on the toes and. feet of the great image 
of Monarchy, and entirely destroys it. 

The power here indicated is not a persuasive power, 
but a destructive power that will cause winds to sweep 
them away like the chaff of a threshing floor, no more to 
b6 found on earth. 

But this stone that accomplishes this great work, in the 
hands of God, is no doubt our great Republic, which, in 
His providence, God is raising up to destroy monarchy. 
And the time is at hand. Compare the Second and Sev- 
enth chapters of Daniel, and you will find that, at the 
downfall of monarchy, God sets up a kingdom that will 
never be destroyed, but will stand forever. And the peo- 
ple of God will be its rulers. Not spirits, but holy men. 

" But the saints of the Most High shall take the king- 
dom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and 
ever." — Dan. vii: 18. 

This don't look like the worid is coming to an end 
soon. 

"And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of 
the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the 
people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is 
an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and 
obey Him." — Dan. vii: 27. 

We can see by this that this kingdom is given to the 
people, not to spirits ; and their rule shall be under the 
whole heaven, or, over the whole earth. 



VIEW OF MONARCHY AND ITS DOWNFALL. 35 



In the Scriptures we read of but two classes of men— 
the righteous and the wicked. So we conclude that, if the 
saints are going to rule shortly, the rulers who were before 
them were devils ; and that "God, in His times, will show 
who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, 
and Lord of Lords."— First Tim. vi: 15. 

We will say a few words about the little horn that 
took the power of three kings, and wT>re the triple crown 
of Lombardy, Ravenna, and Rome. 

It is said of him that he wore out the saints of the Most 
High ; and that they were given into his hand for a time, 
and times, and the dividing of a time: which is 1,260 years. 
This time is past, and the little horn has lost his power ; 
and the saints, or witnesses, have ascended to heaven. 

But the warfare of the saints is not yet over, for we 
read that one of the heads of the beast makes war with 
the saints, and overcomes them. "And power was given 
him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." — Rev. 
xiii : 7. 

But this head has power to continue for only forty and 
two months. This is literally forty-two months, or three 
and one-half years. 

By reflecting on this subject, we can see that the little 
horn had power over the saints for 1,260 years. Then the 
saints took a kingdom. 

But when this head recovers from the wounds that put 
him to death, he assumes the power of the little horn, 
together with his own power, and for a time tramples the 
sanctuary and the people of God under foot forty-two 
months. Rev. xi : 2. 

This head, which is at this time wounded to death, is 
thought, by some, to be the Napoleon head of France, 
which will again come into power. 

From careful study, we find that, since this great image 
has been set up. about 2,487 years have passed away ; and 
in a few years the whole of that image shall have passed 
away, noj more to be found on earth. For the three 
unclean spirits (Rev. xvi: 14) are now busy and at work. 



36 VIEW OF MONARCHY AND ITS DOWNFALL. 



gathering the kings of the whole world to the battle of 
that great day of God the Almighty. 

Christ says : "Behold, I come as a thief." So we may 
expect Christ to come when all the world is massed for 
battle to overthrow our great Republic, or, God's kingdom. 
For it is evident to me that these kings will come down 
by the sword. They rose by the sword, and they will fall 
by the sword. 

" He that leadeth into captivity, shall go into captivity ; 
and he that killeth with the sword, must be killed with 
the sword."— Rev. xiii: 10. 

In Daniel vii: 9, we read that God, the Father, comes 
to judge those kings, and cast thenS down, and calls on 
them to give an account of their stewardship. It reads: 
"The books were opened: and the great words of the little 
horn, and all of his great pretensions, sire cast into the 
fire ; and he is called a beast, instead oi a Great Lawgiver." 

Then Daniel saw one like the Son of Man coming to 
the Father ; and there- was given him a kingdom and 
glory. And it is said of this kingdom, that it will never 
be destroyed. 

In Revelation xi : 15, we read: "When the seventh 
angel sounded, there were great voices in heaven, saying: 
The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of the 
Lord, and of His Christ ; and He shall reign forever and 
ever." 

Here the person of both the Father and the Son are 
brought to view. And the kingdom is in the singular. 
(See New Translation.) 

This change took place in our Republic when she 
reconstructed her government and cast out slavery. 

But Christ will not come into the full possession of his 
kingdom until God, in His power, and in His wrath over- 
throws Monarchy. 

God comes in such awful majesty to judge the govern- 
ments of this world, that many think it is the final judg- 
ment. But Christ, not the Father, is the judge in the last 
judgment. And as governments do not exist in the next 



VIEW OF MONARCHY AND ITS DOWNFALL. 37 

world, they must be judged in this world. Let me say a 
few words now in favor of the Jews. 

If Christ had come as a mighty conquerer, as Daniel and 
the prophets show his second coming to be, the Jews 
would have received him as the Messiah. But because 
Christ came as a servant, they, could not understand the 
object of his .mission. 

And when Christ comes, as come he will, shortly, to set 
up a kingdom for himself, the Gentile world will not 
understand the object of his coming, because he said, while 
on earth, that his kingdom was not of this world. But a 
new era is coming soon ? and then Christ will reign on 
earth as the only great king. 

In Daniel xi: 45, it reads thus: "And he shall plant 
the tabernacle of his palace between the seas, in the glori- 
ous, holy mountain: yet he shall come to his end, and none 
shall help him." : 

Some commentators think that this holy mountain 
between the seas is in the land of Palestine, and that there 
is where we may expect the decisive battle. But this is a 
mistake. Palestine is not between seas, neither is it any 
more the holy mountain. But this great country lies 
between .the seas, and here will be the decisive battle. 

Again, in Daniel xii: 7 : "And I heard the man clothed 
in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he 
held up his right hand, and his left hand, unto heaven, 
and swear by him that liveth forever, that it shall be for 
a time, times, and a half ; and when he shall have accom- 
plished to. scatter the power of the holy people, all these 
things shall be finished." 

The scattering of the power of the holy people is the 
slaying of the witnesses spoken of in Revelation xi: 7, 8. 

The witnesses were slain about the year 1850. But 
they rose from the dead in three and a half years, and 
have ascended to heaven, no more to be conquered. Christ 
has now become their king, and he will conquer the beast, 
the false prophet and the Dragon. The beast and false 
prophet will be confined to the lake of fire, and the 



88 VIEW OF MONARCHY AND ITS DOWNFALL. 



Dragon will be chained for at least one thousand years. 
Rev. xx : 3. 

We will now return to Daniel xii: 17, to consider the 
solemn oath of the angel, that it shall be for a time, times, 
and a half ; and then adds, when he shall have accomplished 
to scatter the power of tho holy people, all these things 
shall be finished. The meaning is this : Daniel had been 
shown, in chapter vii, verse 21, that the little horn that 
subdued three of the ten kings, made war with the saints, 
and prevailed against them, until the ancient of days came 
and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High ; 
and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 
I will say that we live at a time to see the downfall of 
this little horn in Italy ; and we have also seen the head 
wounded unto death, i. e. the Napoleon head of France, 
spoken of in Revelation xiii: 3. 

Now all we have to fear is this head reviving again. 
For it is said of it, that power was given him to continue 
forty and two months, which is three years and a half. 
And for that length of time he will rule the people of G od 
with iron rule. Then he will be cast alive into the lake 
of fire. Rev. xix: 20. 

To the reader of these pages I will say that the coming 
of the Lord draweth nigh. The exact time, no one knows. 
But from the signs of the times, the time is near ; and 
from a view of the Psalmist, in the 72nd Psalm, verse 8 : 
"He shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the 
river to the end of the earth ;" /. e. from the Mississippi to 
Cape Horn. This country will be Christ's dominion. 

But to show that the church will be called upon to do 
hard fighting before she sits under her vine and fig tree in 
peace. Read Micah iv: 7- 10 : "And Lwill make her that 
halted, a remnant ; and her that was cast far off, a strong 
nation. And the Lord shall reign over them in Mount 
Zion, from henceforth, even forever. And thou, 0, tower 
of the flock of the stronghold of the daughter of Zion. unto 
thee shall it come, even the first dominion. The kingdom 
shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem/' "Now. why 



VIEW OF MONARCHY AND ITS DOWNFALL. 39 



dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee? Is 
thy counsellor perished? For pangs have taken thee as a 
woman in travail. Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, 0, 
daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt 
thou go forth out of the city ; and thou shalt dwell in the 
field ; and thou shalt go even unto Babylon. There shalt 
thou be delivered ; there the Lord shall redeem thee from 
the hand of thine enemies." 

This Babylon, that the daughter of Zion goes to, must 
be the Mystic Babylon — for there is no other Babylon in 
the w T orld in our times. 

Micah iv: 11-13 : "Now, also, many nations are gath- 
ered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our 
eye look upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of 
the Lord, neither understand they His counsel: for He shall 
gather them as sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, 
0, daughter of Zion ; for I will make thine horn iron : and 
I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces 
many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the 
Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole 
earth. 

Zephaniah iii: 8,-9, 10, reads : " Therefore, wait ye upon 
me, saith the Lord, until the clay that I rise up to the prey: 
for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may 
assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indigna- 
tion, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be 
devoured with the fire of my jealousy. For then will I 
turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call 
upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent. 
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, my suppliants, even 
the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering." 

This daughter, who brings this offering, and w T ho dwells 
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, is the church of God in 
America ; for a view beyond those rivers, from Palestine, 
would be the United States: so this must be the land of 
God's holy mountain. 

Same chapter, and 19th verse, reads : "Behold, at that 
time I will undo all that afflict thee ; and I will save her 



40 VIEW OF MONARCHY AND ITS DOWNFALL, 



that halteth, and gather her that was driven out ; and I 
will get them praise and fame in every land where they 
have been put to shame." 

Read also the 18th chapter of Isaiah. It points to this 
country as a land shadowing with wings ; and of a people 
given to the Lord as a present ; and it also has a reference 
to the gathering and cutting off the branches of the vine 
of the earth. And it also speaks of the fowls of the moun- 
tains and the beasts of the earth wintering upon them. 

The nation that was trodden (Isaiah xviii: 7) under foot 
was the African slaves in our country, that have been set 
free. The cutting off of the vine of the earth, and the 
gathering of the grapes into the great winepress of the 
wrath of God, will soon be accomplished. Then the wicked 
combinations of the world will be destroyed. For a better 
translation of this Eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, the reader 
is referred to a little book published by John McDonald, of 
Albany, entitled, "Isaiah's Message to the American 
Nation." 

The ensign has been lifted upon the mountains; and 
the trumpet has been blown in our late war, which is 
called the harvest, in Isaiah, 18th chapter. The next war 
that the United States will be engaged in, will be the 
treading of the winepress of God's wrath. This will come 
upon this Nation before it is prepared for war. 

We will here remark that in the countries where the 
vine is successfully cultivated, there is about six weeks 
from harvest to vintage. By taking each day for one year* 
this would be forty-two years, or, say, forty-five years ; and 
even this is a very short time for this Government to pre- 
pare for such a dreadful war as this will be! All the mon- 
archies of the world combined against us! But notwith- 
standing all this, this Nation, with God's help, will subdue 
them all. Then the world will have peace ; and not until 
then. 

The coming twenty years will witness Europe's unhal- 
lowed' wars on weak governments. Then our time will 
come, and the struggle will be desperate. And if civil 



VIEW OF MONARCHY AND ITS DOWNFALL. 41 



and religious liberty is overthrown, the Star Spangled 
Banner will be its winding sheet. 

This is the same great battle spoken of in Revelation 
xvi: 14, which reads : "For they are the spirits of devils, 
working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the 
whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great 
day of God the Almighty." 

In verse 15, Christ says : " Behold, I come as a thief." 

He will come at a time, and in a way, that this vast 
army will be very sorry to meet him. 

It will be when they are trying to overthrow the last 
bright hope of earth. 



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